Counting Crows: One for Sorrow
This was an engaging, thought provoking performance that uses a study of a historical event to make a clear polemic in relation to contemporary policy.
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Dr Pete Phillips
Artist and Collaborative Member of Search Party
Personal Advisor for performance
Director: Holly Parsons
Cast: Nick Carmichael, Freda Lawson- King, Jake Hazel, Daniel Yorke, Aneta Drapelova . Photography: Caitlin Plimmer .
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This was a really interesting experiment with form, a visual theatre that works with inherited voices - a complex blend of choreography, character and found sound. The piece attempts to draw a line between WW1 – the war to end all wars – and the critique of current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s position on nuclear first strike policy.
The performance structure leads the audience through the horrors of WW1, the unprecedented loss of life, the shameful aftercare of soldiers, and notions of cowardice to expose the contemporary bloodlust of Corbyn’s detractors in the memory of these horrors. Here the political critique of nuclear first strike policy is sharp and powerful.